Yacht Consulting Services
SIgnature Yacht Selection Consultation
Choosing and preparing the right yacht requires knowledge that goes beyond brochures, boat shows, and ASA courses. I provide comprehensive consultation services to ensure your yacht perfectly matches you, your sailing ambitions, and your cruising style. It's about understanding how that vessel will perform in your specific cruising scenarios and lifestyle requirements, safely, comfortably, and practically.
Cruising Destinations and Performance:
For either ocean voyaging or coastal cruising, I believe a yacht needs the same sailing characteristics and fit-out: safety, comfort, and consideration of all points of sail performance. Arguably, a coastal cruiser needs better and more well-rounded sailing characteristics than a voyaging yacht. Land and its nearby structures present more dangers than the open ocean in most circumstances. A yacht with very good performance, upwind, downwind, or reaching, will better keep you safe in coastal cruising or ocean voyaging scenarios.
Your destinations also influence yacht choice significantly. How much space do you need for stores, water, fuel, and spare parts? Will you be mostly tradewind sailing or beating to windward? Will you be sailing in cold or warm climates? These factors directly influence vessel selection.
Lifestyle, Crew, and Ability Assessment:
Are you active? What are your gear requirements, bikes, diving equipment, mountaineering and ski gear, live-aboard necessities, these all shape storage needs and affect vessel choice.
Dinghy size and storage capabilities often determine your ability to explore effectively, or handle the day to day chores required of a voyaging sailor.
Crew configuration matters enormously:
Solo sailors might need different deck layouts than those with regular crew.
Privacy requirements and storage for safety gear scale with crew size.
Age and mobility considerations can make features like pilot houses or side entry, vs two sided entry, vs front entry (V-birth) style bunks and quarters important considerations.
What are your sailing abilities?
Can you handle hank-on sails or two-headsail boats?
Do you need all lines leading to the cockpit?
Wheel or tiller preference?
Speciality Consultation Services
Yacht Fit-Out and Preparation
Proper preparation transforms a boat into a safe, capable, comfortable, cruising yacht. My first consideration for safety is eliminating fatigue, I believe it to be the bane of any safe voyaging, and it is the basis behind all my fit-out protocol.
Everything you need to know to fit-out and prepare your coastal cruiser or ocean voyaging yacht for safe, comfortable, practical, sailing adventures.
Stem to stern, above and below decks.
Tools and skills needed
Work and Repair Consultation
Not every project deserves the same priority, and I believe few, if any require professional intervention. I am a firm believer in knowing your yacht inside and out! How to prepare, repair, install, and trouble shoot every critical system on your boat, within reason.
We will assess your vessels condition
Take the projects in order of importance
Learn how to approach each project systematically and practically, understanding scope, sequence, and realistic timelines for effective completion.
We'll identify what tools you need for your specific vessel ensuring you're tooled-up for both routine maintenance and for full time voyaging.
Want to learn more?
Selecting and preparing a yacht for serious cruising requires experience and understanding of how boats perform in real-world conditions, combined with your own style of cruising, skill level, and desired destinations. Let's review your sailing plans and ensure your vessel will take you safely and comfortably wherever it is you want to explore.